Bowling Saturne Patricia Mazuy’s follow-up to her successful Paul Sanchez is Back! (2018) offers a unique take on the thriller genre: A police officer, Guillaume, asks his half-brother, Armand, to manage the bowling alley that he has inherited when their father passed away. Being homeless, Armand accepts the offer. Once he is settled in at the bowling alley and the apartment that belonged to their father who ignored him while he was alive, Armand starts to gradually reveal his savage nature. Although the film is ostensibly about the actions of a serial killer, its true essence is a meditation on the origin of violence. Mazuy depicts a world populated by hunters, rapists, and murderers. Of the film, she has said: “The idea was to stage the legacy of savagery and violence. The ghost of power and the rulers who in the twentieth century brought the world into chaos hovers(…)” (SEO Seunghee)